1:87 50ft Car, is a design of Neil Ward's https://www.nwmodelworks.com/ so if you're interested in owning your own model check him out, my printer is not as high quality as Neil's so what you see shouldn't represent his fine models. Anyway, I've stripped down the details, thickened the walls & further split the roof as to be printed separately. The seats i've printed on a "floor" that is glued to the chassis and acts as a grip for the main body shell that can easily be removed since it's held only by friction. The intent is to create a train for dad and brother david's ho layouts. 1st test car shown has a more basic chassis and an early take on the bogies. The ventilators are halfway finished but glazing done. Just need wheels, couplers and maybe a pacific or light mountain chassis for the steamer to haul it.
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| In the early hours of the morning a second shell emerges. |
Pre abrasion therapy the second shell is pretty clean considering the cheaper abs and worn printhead.
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| On the third day a third shell emerged into at least slightly more light. |
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| On the 6th day he finally got the paint colour about right. I'm upgrading my brothers 30ft van body & soon chassis as his one is rather out of scale only ever so slightly but still enough to annoy me. |
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